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G. M.'EAMES.

EDGE HNISHING AND UNITJNG WOVEN mama's.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.24| I918.

Patented June 3, 1919.

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OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

EDGE-FINISHING AND UNITINGTWOVEN FABRICS.

Application filed August 2 1918.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. Esiirns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairii'eld and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Edge-Finishing and Uniting \Voven Fabrics, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawlngs.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in edge-finishes for collars, cuffs and like articles made of woven materials.

It is a common practice to finish edges of fabrics by folding and hem-folding the same o ;.by applying a binding strip to a fabric with or without a folded ed e. Then the fabric is of any appreciable thickness, the edge, finished according to known methods, presents a bulky, unsightly appearance.

The present invention has for its object to improve the known methods of edge-finishing fabrics by providing the woven material with a margin of less thickness than that of material, and then folding the comparatively thin margin upon itself, upon the body-material or both and securing the fold in a suitable manner. In a specific embodiment of the invention, a collar may be cut out of a ribbon or strip of woven material, as vdisclosed and described for instance in the U. S. patent to Bowen, No. 1,254,306,*?dated January 22, 1918. The raw margin of the collar may be skived or searfed to I produce a margin of less thickness than tiratof: the body-material and the skived margin may then be folded and the fold secured in any suitable manner, but preferably by a line or lines of stitching. The resulting product is neat in appearance and present-s no unsightly ridge at its margin, for when ironed the fold practically merges into the body of the collar to an extent leaving the fold scarcely perceptible. 1

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate a specific embodiment of the invention. Figure l is a plan view of a. cut-out collar blank and illustrating the several edge-finishing stages. Figs. 2, 3 and are enlarged sectional views taken respectively on the lines w-m, g -gz and 2-2, of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a modification, illustrating a sectional view of a collar with the skived edge hem-folded upon itself, and Fig. 6 is an en Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented June 3, 1919; Serial No. 251,319.

produces a seam disagreeable to the sight at the juncture of the ends of' the tape and at the meeting tabs of the collar.

In accordance with the present improved method of finishing the edge of the collar, the free edge or margin 2 of the blank is skived or scarfed to produce a thinned edge 3. The skived edge 3 is then-folded or hemfolded and united with the body of the collar in 1 any preferred m anner, preferably employing either one or two lines of stitching as 4. Two diiferent methods offolding the skived margin are illustrated in Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings. The fold 5, when the collar is ironed, leaves a scarcely perceptible ridge on the body of the collar, the fold appearing on'the inside edge of the collar when the panels of the latter are folded in the usual manner for use, while only the stitcliing shows on the outer surface of the collar, giving to the latter a desirable appearance. It is of course obvious that the folded portions of v the material may be united without employing stitching, as for instance by cement.

The provision ofa thinned edge at the .znargin of the collar by ticularly as a single piece, as described in Patent No. 1,254,306 herein referred to. This is illustrated in Fig. 6 of the accompanying drawings, in which a two-ply woven fabric, comprising warpthreads 6'" and 7 and weft threads 8 and 9 are woven as iniividnally complete plies scparafid by 10'an d united by a binding thread 11. It is apparent that in fabrics of this kind one or more of the plies may be skived,as shown in the. drawings without maining ply or plies.

While the present improvement is illustrated' in the accompanying drawings as "a collar-edg ish,

the preferred method described, namely by SKI mag, 18 parfeasible in mult1- pi fabric woven.

a filling thread.

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applicant believeshe is ind desires it it; be understood that, cens wed, the inventicn is not limit-eci in its application to the article shown.

tiJiS set forth the nature cf the invention, what I claim herein is- 1. An iniprcyed edge finish for collars and like articles made of interwoven multiply 19 fabFlC haying a thinned margin, said thinned him-gin being folded and secured to the '-izibiic to produce a 1d vf hed edge of lie-Vin id fabric.

Woven materials used for anythe same thickness as that of aceees 2. An improved method of making 001- 15 121's, consisting of cutting the collar blanks from a strip of multiply fabric Woven as it single piece, thinning the margins of the blanks by skiving one 01' more of the multi- "ple plies, hem-folding the thinned margins, 20 and securing the hem-folds by a llnc of GEORGE M. E l iris. 

